A couple of foibles on the website make it easier if I post the details for long standing poster @apollack's new book than the man himself. It's a six week warning on the definitive fistic account of Jack Dempsey's insane fighting career. " In The Ring With Jack Dempsey - Part I: The Making of a Champion, by Adam J. Pollack is the most thorough and detailed book ever written about former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. This book (the first of two) chronicles Dempsey's life and career from its start up to winning the world heavyweight championship, fight by fight, as told by those that saw the contests and reported on them at the time, utilising multiple local next day newspaper reports. This includes training, predictions, pre-fight hype, and discussions about the opponents. As with other books in the In the Ring series, this book also discusses the context of the times, the color line and race in boxing and society (offering the perspectives of both white and black-owned newspapers), World War I, Dempsey's personal and managerial choices, and how these topics affected the sport and Dempsey’s life and career. Even new facts about the controversial Jim Flynn fight are revealed. Boxing fans will obtain knowledge and insight into Jack Dempsey like never before. 560 pages, with over 550 rare photos, illustrations, cartoons, and fight advertisements." This content is protected I look forwards to many years of you guys quoting it to each other, thereby proving your diametrically opposed arguments are correct.
awesome looking cover. captures the era with the lettering and color scheme. Looks like a turn of the century post card from coney island.
I'll be buying it! If its anywhere as detailed and thoroughly researched as his previous biographies,with the added settings of time places and characters I shall be well satisfied!
Although Pollack's books are well researched, I think he's a tad generous on his subject material. Well see if he talks about Dempsey avoiding Wills and Greb and his legit KO1 loss to Jim Flynn, without fluff covering it up. If he does the, he'll get a thumbs up for historical accuracy as that's part of Dempsey's history.
Since ,by your own admission you haven't read any of Pollack's books. Can you explain how you arrived at the underlined opinion you expressed? Osmosis perhaps ?
Why? I thought he would have really done well under a pollack expose. that being said, presumably he will feature very heavily in the first Dempsey book.
The amount of time and research need to produce such a book has to be justified by the degree of public interest it will generate,perhapsAdam couldn't justify that time and effort on a pretty colourless career, and a rather drab personality? Jess should be a major player in one volume or the other,depending on where he leaves Dempsey's story in the 1st volume.
